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Nepal Church Bomber Faked Repentance
Posted on April 9, 2011 by particularkev
Imprisoned chief of Hindu militant group used Christianity to cover up extortion, terror.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, April 4 (CDN) — The chief of a militant Hindu extremist group sought to disguise his extortion and terror activities from behind bars by claiming he had repented of bombing a church in Nepal and showing interest in Christianity, according to investigators.
The revelation emerged when Nepal's premier investigation agency foiled a plot to explode a series of bombs devised by Ram Prasad Mainali, former chief of the Hindu militant outfit Nepal Defence Army (NDA), in the capital city of Kathmandu. Police on March 4 arrested six cohorts of Mainali carrying powerful "socket bombs" – home-made, hand grenade-type weapons made from plumbing joints – and high-explosive powder, to be used as part of a plan to extort money from industrialists, The Himalayan Times reported.
In an interview last year, Mainali had told Compass that his interaction with Christians inside jail in Kathmandu's Nakkhu area had led him to repent of his deeds and read the Bible (see "Bomber in Nepal Repents, Admits India Link," Jan. 4, 2010). Mainali was arrested on Sept. 5, 2009 for exploding a bomb in a Catholic parish in Kathmandu, Our Lady of the Assumption, which killed a teenager and a newly married woman and injured more than a dozen others on May 23 of that year.
Prior to the Compass interview, Mainali had sent a handwritten letter from the prison to a monthly Christian newsmagazine in Nepal, Hamro Ashish (Our Blessing), saying he regretted having attacked Christians.
A local Christian worker who had known Mainali said the church bomber used Christianity to evade police surveillance.
"I was disheartened when I recently learned that Mainali had threatened some pastors with violent attacks, demanding protection money from them," he told Compass on condition of anonymity.
The source said Mainali threatened him and pastors he knew by phone. He suspected that a fellow prisoner, Jeevan Rai Majhi, previously considered a convert to Christianity, had given the pastors' phone numbers to Mainali. Majhi, formerly a notorious criminal, had allegedly accepted Christ inside the prison, and jail authorities made him the prison leader. He also led a Bible study group in the prison.
"Some prisoners who attend the Bible study in the Nakkhu Jail told me that Mainali shared the extortion money with Majhi, which aroused jealousy among other prisoners, who reported it to the jail authorities," the source said.
Around 150 prisoners attend the Nakkhu Gospel Church inside the prison premises, though Majhi is no longer leading it. Both Mainali and Majhi were recently transferred, Mainali to the Dilli-Bazaar Jail and Majhi to the Mid-Nepal Central Jail.
Deputy Inspector General of Police and Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) Director Rajendra Singh Bhandari told The Kathmandu Post that the arrest of Mainali's men was a "tremendous achievement" that averted "mass casualties" in the capital.
"It seems that Mainali had filled the arrestees' minds with dreams of earning quick bucks through terror," the daily quoted another investigation official as saying.
The Christian source said he still hoped for genuine repentance in Mainali and Majhi.
"Mainali and Majhi must have at least some knowledge of the Bible," he said. "So I am still hopeful that they would reflect on who God is and truly repent of their ways as they spend their time in prison cells incommunicado [prohibited from speaking with any outsider]."
According to The Kathmandu Post, the CIB had been observing Mainali following complaints that he had demanded large sums of money from businessmen and others.
"He had been making phone calls and sending demand letters to them," the daily reported on March 4.
Compass requested an interview with Mainali at the Dilli-Bazaar Jail, which officials refused.
"We have orders not to allow Mainali to meet anyone," said one official.
Mainali had earlier told Compass that he formed the NDA with the support of Hindu nationalists in India in 2007 to re-establish the Hindu monarchy, which fell after a decade-long armed struggle by former Maoist guerrillas peaked in 2006, when all political parties joined protests against King Gyanendra.
The NDA is also believed to be responsible for bombing mosques and killing Muslims and Christians, including the Rev. John Prakash Moyalan, a Catholic priest who was principal of the Don Bosco educational institution in eastern Nepal, in June 2008. While Christians in Nepal faced persecution at the hands of the Hindu monarchy until 2006, non-state actors have been attacking them since the country began transitioning to a secular democracy.
"Several incidents of religiously incited violence directed at minority religions and their property have been recorded since the signing of the peace accord [between the interim government and the Maoists in 2006]," a local Non-Governmental Organization, Informal Sector Service Sector (INSEC), noted last year.
"Although moves have been made to promote religious tolerance and a climate of peace and cooperation, this area must continuously be monitored," stated an INSEC report, "Commitment versus Reality," which mentioned attacks on Christians by Mainali's outfit.
Of the roughly 30 million people in Nepal, only .5 percent are Christian, and more than 80 percent are Hindu, according to the 2001 census. The actual number of Christians, however, is believed to be much higher.
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False Charges Filed against 47 Christians in Pakistan
Police try to extract bribe after attacking home; in Rawalpindi, militants attack chapel.
VEHARI, Pakistan, April 8 (CDN) — Police here filed false charges of alcohol possession against 47 Christians, including women and children, on March 28 in an attempt to intimidate and bribe them, Christian leaders said.
Police broke into and ransacked the home of Shaukat Masih at 10:15 p.m. on Palm Sunday, manhandled his wife Parveen Bibi, and threatened to charge them and 45 other area Christians with alcohol possession if they did not pay a bribe, said attorney Albert Patras. The Christians refused.
Those charged include two children and eight women. Patras said that three of the 37 Christian men, Shaukat Masih, Moula Masih and Shanni Masih, secured pre-arrest bail and thus averted detainment by Dane Wall police in Vehari, in Punjab Province. None of the others named in the First Information Report is being held either.
"Police are not interested in their arrest, instead they were trying to extort some money from the destitute Christians," Patras said. "Police thought that Christians, being a soft target, would readily be bribed to save their families, particularly their girls and women."
Non-Muslims with a permit are allowed to possess and drink alcohol in Pakistan, while alcohol is forbidden to Muslims in Pakistan. Shaukat Masih has a government permit to keep and drink alcohol, Patras said, thus making the possession charge baseless.
"No longer using just 'blasphemy' laws, police and fanatical Muslims have begun to use alcohol laws, Section 3/4 of the Pakistan Penal Code, to persecute the destitute Christians of Pakistan," Patras said. "Only Christians in Pakistan are allowed to keep and drink alcohol, so Pakistani police can apprehend any Christian and then level section 3/4 of PPC against him or her."
Patras, head of the Society for Empowerment of the People, told Compass that Sub-Inspector Irshaad-ur-Rehman of the Dane Wall police station, along with two other policemen illegally ransacked the house of Shaukat Masih and Sadiq Masih and threatened to file alcohol charges against them if they refused to pay the bribe.
Besides the alcohol accusations, police also filed charges against the Christians for interfering with police, attacking in the form of a mob, theft, confronting police and engaging in terrorist activities, Patras said.
Patras said that Rehman filed the false charges against the Christians only to protect himself and his cohorts against accusations over their attack on the household. Rehman was not immediately available for comment.
Khalid Gill, head of Lahore zone of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) and chief organizer of the Christian Liberation Front of Punjab Province, said that police violated the trust of their office.
"Keeping alcohol and drinking is taboo in Islam," Gill said, "but Christians are issued permits to keep and drink alcohol. Now besides the discriminatory blasphemy laws of Sections 295-A, 295-B and 295-C of the penal code, fanatical Muslims and police have found this new way to harass and extort money from innocent, impoverished Christian families."
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Naeem Essa condemned the police action, concurring with the other Christian leaders that Muslim extremists and police accustomed to using Pakistan's blasphemy laws to unjustly jail Christians have found a new means of antagonism.
"Now they have grabbed a new weapon in Section 3/4 of the penal code to financially, socially and legally terrorize the weak Christians of Pakistan," Essa said.
Armed Attack on Chapel
In another Easter week incident, in Rawalpindi law enforcement agents secured the liberty of Christians held hostage by several armed Muslim militants, including at least five burqa-clad women, who attacked a church building after a Good Friday (April 2) service.
APMA's Gill said the assailants armed with automatic rifles and pistols desecrated Gordon College Chapel of Robinson Community Development Ministries (RCDM) Church and ripped apart books, including the Bible. The assailants also entered nearby residences and reprimanded adults and children for their faith in Christ, besides looting many of the homes, Gill said.
Eyewitnesses said that while two Christians, Shaban Gill and Imran Nazir, were scaling the wall of their property to enter their home, the Muslim militants opened fire on them. Gill managed to escape but Nazir was hit, and the militants held his wife and two daughters, one 4 years old and the other 18 months, at gunpoint.
A heavy contingent of police from City Police Station Raja Bazaar arrived at the scene, and with the help of local Christians broke down doors and gates to make their way into the property and its adjoining residential area. Police secured the liberty of all three Christian hostages and arrested at least 10 suspects.
Nine of the suspects have been identified as Mushtaq Ahmed, Amjad Zaman Cheema, Dildar Hussein, Muhammad Anwer and Saqib Ali, along with the burqa-clad Nusrat Bibi, Shahnaz Bibi, Irum Bibi and Fatima Bibi.
Police were initially reluctant to file charges against the arrested Muslims but eventually did so under the pressure from Christian rights activists Robinson Asghar, head of RCDM.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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PAKISTAN: MUSLIM FORCES 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO CONVERT, MARRY HIM
Posted on June 7, 2009 by particularkev
Police ridicule Christian mother for kidnapping complaint; others demand money, labor.
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 4 (Compass Direct News) – The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week.
The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih's complaint so far – ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim – does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday's (June 11) hearing.
Masih said that Muhammad Imran abducted Huma at gunpoint on Feb. 23 from Hanif Kot village in Gujranwala district, forcibly converted her and then married her. Imran has since disappeared along with his first wife, three children and new child-bride.
Masih, who worked alongside Imran as a farmhand, said the kidnapping occurred on her son's wedding day. Masih said that when she sent Huma and the child's aunt out of their home to see if transportation had arrived for the wedding party, Imran – who had helped in preparing for the ceremony – was waiting and told her to sit on his motorbike.
Huma did not understand and, with her concerned aunt tightly holding her hand, she refused.
Masih's attorney, who requested anonymity for security reasons, said Imran took out a pistol and told Huma that he would shoot her as well as her parents if she did not obey; he also pointed the weapon at her aunt and said that he would kill her. Huma got onto the bike with him; her family has not seen her since.
Masih immediately ran to the owner of the farm where she and Imran work, Khan Buhadur, who told her to first finish the wedding and then see him in the evening. Masih's attorney said that when she and relatives went to Buhadur after the ceremony, however, he said only that Imran had fled with his family along with the girl, and that he did not know where they were.
Suspecting that Buhadur was complicit in the kidnapping, Masih went to Sadar police station in Gujranwala. Police officers first ridiculed her, the attorney said, and then told her to go back to Buhadur because "only he could do something." For several days officers and Buhadur shuttled her back and forth between them.
Unable to get police to register the case, Masih submitted a report with the help of a lawyer and took it to the police station, where officers consigned it to the dustbin.
Three days after the kidnapping, police finally registered a First Information Report (FIR) on Feb. 26 – but changed the age of the kidnapped girl from 12, as her mother reported, to 16. Moreover, Investigating Officer Niaz Khan told Masih that the FIR was useless since she was too poor to hire a lawyer, and that she should try to reach an out-of-court agreement with Buhadur – implying that he knew of the child's whereabouts.
The Masih family learned from a friend of Imran, identified only as Javed, that Huma had converted to Islam and had married the fugitive father of three. Javed further said that Imran had told him police would do nothing as he had paid them 50,000 rupees (US$620).
The family subsequently received a court notice, the attorney said, stating that Imran had requested nullification of the FIR on Huma's abduction, claiming she was an "adult" and had "willfully" converted to Islam and married him.
According to Huma's birth certificate, issued by St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Gujranwala, she was born on Oct. 22, 1996. The attorney said that Imran had submitted a fake birth certificate stating she was born on Dec. 23, 1990, which would make her 18 years old. The legal marriage age for girls in Pakistan is 16.
Only then did Masih obtain the services of the lawyer now handling the case, who is supported by the American Center for Law & Justice.
A hearing on the case had been scheduled for May 6, but because of a change of judge a new date was set for June 11. Unwilling to wait, the family and their lawyer went with a court bailiff to a factory owned by Buhadur in Gujranwala on May 14, hoping to get help in recovering Huma, but Buhadur did not cooperate.
Buhadur had been demanding that Masih pay him 100,000 rupees (US$1,240) that she had supposedly borrowed from him, but this demand only surfaced after the kidnapping – an implied attempt to extort money from her in exchange for information on the whereabouts of her daughter, according to the lawyer. Buhadur withdrew this pressure on Masih after the visit from the court bailiff and efforts by the attorney.
At a meeting of villagers on May 16 at the Sadar police station, Buhadur said that Imran owed him money and that he would inform officers if he learned anything of his whereabouts.
Another land owner, Karamat Ali Saroyya, subsequently called Masih saying that Huma was in Muridke, near Lahore, but when Masih and her lawyer set out again and met with Muridke police, they were unable to find her.
Saroyya later demanded that Masih work his fields for one year in order to get her daughter back.
Masih's lawyer and other legal representatives said police and officials at the Municipal Corporation's office, which keeps birth and death records, have been reluctant to help, saying that Huma had converted and that therefore there was no reason that she should be returned to non-Muslim parents.
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EGYPT: TWO COPTS WRONGLY DETAINED, TORTURED
Posted on December 2, 2008 by particularkev
Government uses brothers as scapegoat in murder; officials claim violence not sectarian.
ISTANBUL, December 1 (Compass Direct News) – Two Coptic Christians wrongfully arrested for killing a Muslim during the May 31 attack on Abu Fana monastery in Egypt have been tortured and sent to a detention camp so authorities could try to extract a false confession, their lawyer said.
Egyptian authorities sent brothers Refaat and Ibrahim Fawzy Abdo to El Wadi El Gadid Detention Camp near the Egypt-Sudan border on Nov. 22. A week earlier they were bailed out pending their court case – but never released – and held in a Mallawi police station until their transfer to the camp.
The brothers' attorney, Zakary Kamal, said the timing of the murder at the monastery rules out any possibility of the two Copts having committed it.
Monks at Abu Fana say the Fawazy Abdo brothers were far from the monastery at the time of the May 31 attacks, which began at roughly 4 p.m. and continued until police arrived four hours later.
Security forces are detaining the brothers to blackmail the Coptic Church into testifying that the attack against Abu Fana monastery in Mallawi, Upper Egypt, was not religiously motivated, Kamal said.
"They want the whole issue to be seen by the public as if it were an exchange of gunfire and a criminal case that had nothing to do with persecution of Christians," he told Compass.
At the beginning of Refaat and Ibrahim Fawzy Abdo's captivity in June, police subjected the two men to electric shocks eight hours a day for three days to try to force them to testify that the Abu Fana monks were armed during the attack, sources said.
Kamal said those guilty in the attack knew the brothers were innocent but attempted to extort 5 million Egyptian pounds (US$920,000) from the Coptic church in exchange for testimony in support of the brothers during informal "reconciliation meetings."
Such meetings are somewhat customary in Egypt, in which different parties come together to settle legal matters out of court. Egyptian parliamentarians attended the first meetings, but the parties did not reach a settlement.
Kamal said he worries that police and parliamentarians are using the meetings to pressure the Coptic Church to agree to their terms and take the focus of the case off of rising sectarian violence within Egypt.
Reconciliation meetings are part of a larger trend in Egypt of the government framing such clashes as cases of simple land disputes with no sectarian overtimes, the attorney claimed, and so far he has refused to pay money in exchange for a testimony.
"I completely refused any agreements of reconciliation, because if we accept those terms, that means we admitted [the brothers] killed someone," he said.
The two men worked as building contractors on the walls of Abu Fana monastery when nearly 60 armed Muslim residents attacked it on May 31. The attack left one Muslim dead, four Christians injured, and three monks briefly kidnapped.
Ibrahim Tiqi Riad, the brother of resident monk Father Mina, was also kidnapped and remains missing. A Coptic priest who preferred to remain anonymous told Compass that they believe he may have been forcibly converted to Islam.
In the course of the violence, attackers tied two of the kidnapped monks to a palm tree, whipped and beat them, and forced them to spit on a cross and give the confession of Islam, according to a report by the Coptic Assembly of America.
Five days after the attacks, security forces arrested the Fawazy Abdo brothers, charging them with murder. Their case is pending.
The families of the two men are suffering in their absence as they were the sole breadwinners. The electricity in their families' houses has been shut off since they can't pay their bills, Kamal said.
The reasons behind the death of the Muslim at Abu Fana monastery remains a mystery. Police did not record the details of the killing in the investigation report of the monastery attack.
Bishop Demetrios Avanmina, head of the Mallawi diocese and abbot of Abu Fana monastery, is working to resolve the matter with local politicians and security forces.
Avanmina declined to comment to Compass on the brothers' captivity, saying only that he and others were working with the police and the state to resolve the matter.
Government Spin
The nature of the May attacks against the monastery, located 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Cairo, is in dispute. Coptic advocacy groups claim the attacks were motivated by growing hostility against Egypt's Christian community.
But local Muslims say monastery leaders were illegally taking possession of land and attempting to frame the attacks in the form of religious persecution in order to gain sympathy for their cause.
Gov. Ahmed Dia el-Din said police reports have documented disputes over the land going back several years, and that Abu Fana obtained portions of its land from informal contracts, resulting in the governor's rejection of the monastery's claim of possessing valid land titles, according to Egyptian weekly Al-Maydan.
Following the attacks, hundreds of Coptic Christians took to the streets of Mallawi to demonstrate against the violence. They chanted, "With our blood and soul, we will defend the cross."
The monastery has seen violent episodes in the past with its neighbors, typically over issues relating to land.
In January another group of a dozen men armed with automatic weapons burned the monastery's library and destroyed many monastic cells, according to the Coptic Assembly advocacy group.
The Coptic Church makes up at least 10 percent of the Muslim-majority country's population of 80 million. Its church dates back to the early centuries of Christianity.
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Born: 1897, Bradford
Address: 2 Mount Pleasant, Eccleshill
Parents: Fred & Annie, nee Gott
Siblings: Harry, Arthur
Occupation: Warp tyer-in, weaving shed, Tunwell Mills
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Rank: Pte
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Regiment: West Yorkshire
Laurence Wilkinson
Laurence was the third son of Fred and Annie Wilkinson. By the 1911 census Annie was a widow, raising the three boys with the help of her parents who were living with them in Eccleshill. Laurence was listed as a warp tyer- in in a weaving shed. One 16 June 1916, the Shipley Times & Express published his thoughts on arriving at the front line in France. "Those at home little know how letters are appreciated out here and we get all too few. "At last we have arrived at our final destination and are now with the 1st and 2nd Pals. "I have not been in action yet but am expecting being called to do my share any day and am feeling fit and well for the job. "We are in very fair billets just now and these are not far from the firing line. We wake up in the night by the roaring of the guns for by the noise they make, they only seem to be a few yards away. "I was delighted to have a visit from my uncle who, as you know, is attached to the Canadian hospital
staff. He has come 25 miles to see me and we had a splendid half-day together." The next we hear of him is a short note on 17 August 1917 to say he was on a short leave. He returned to the line and on 10 May 1918 he was listed among the Eccleshill men who had been wounded: "Pte Laurence Wilkinson, of 2 Mount Avenue, has been so seriously wounded in the right leg that it has had to be amputated. At present he is in the Canadian Clearing Station." Two weeks later the newspaper carried Laurence's description of what had happened: Writing from Cambuslang War Hospital to a friend, Pte Laurence Wilkinson, of 2 Mount Avenue, Eccleshill, relates how was severely wounded and had his right leg amputated.
He says: "On the 24th April last we had been out of the trenches two days and were in Brigade Reserve in some old dugouts to the left of Ypres. "Here we were heavily bombarded by high explosives and gas shells and these projectiles got so near and the gas so thick that we were compelled to get our gas masks on. "At least a hundred of our men were gassed and two were killed and I got a nasty touch of the gas but it worked off. "On the night of the 24th we were ordered to be fully dressed and by 2a.m. on the 25th we moved off to another place about a mile away. "We had no sooner settled down when we received news that the Boches were coming over and so we had to have another move on. "After passing along a canal bank
we had to jump old trenches, crawl through barbed wire with full fighting kit on and do it under heavy shell fire. "Though I had been out two years I never experienced war like this. Wounded men lay all about us and it flashed through my mind that my turn would be coming soon. "We were ordered to take cover anywhere and most of them found shelter by the side of a stream. I got behind a blown-in dugout and lay face downwards awaiting further orders. "All at once I heard a tremendous crash and felt an awful pain in my right leg. I was badly wounded and called for assistance from the ambulance men. Fortunately they were close at hand and attended my injuries immediately." The final mention in the paper comes a month later when we read: "A collection taken among the weavers at Tunwell Mills last Friday for Pte Laurence Wilkinson, who has had his leg amputated through shell wounds, realised £2 10s 8d."

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Home Crime and Punishment Son of Guns Star Will Hayden Pleads Guilty to Rape Charges?
Son of Guns Star Will Hayden Pleads Guilty to Rape Charges?
Last we heard, former Sons of Guns reality TV star Will Hayden [above] pled not guilty to one count of forcible rape of an 11-year-old girl in a Livingston Parish court, Louisiana. Before that, the former Red Jacket Firearms jefe pled not guilty to one count of aggravated rape in Baton Rouge in connection with his arrest for raping a young girl multiple times between March 2013 and August 2014. But a report on Hayden's hidden endorsement deals just published on foxnews.com casually suggests that the Discovery Channel's former cash cow has copped a plea with the state. It says . . .
The former Discovery Channel star and ex-Red Jacket Firearms owner, who last week plead guilty to multiple rape charges in Louisiana, has been ordered by a Baton Rouge state judge to pay more than $130,000 in penalties and damages to his former business partners for secret business dealings using the company's brand.
"I can't think why he thought he would get away with all this," Red Jacket Licensing CEO Joe Meaux, who filed the victorious breach of contract lawsuit along with the other partners against Hayden, told FOX411, "unless he's a psychopathic megalomaniac."
Yes, well, there is that. And, one can now say – if the report is true – the rest. Anyway, Fox reports that prison life doesn't suit Hayden.
A source connected to the show said that Hayden is said to be struggling in prison, gaining weight and depressed.
Meaux and the existing team are not in any way involved in the criminal charges against their former counterpart. But despite the piling troubles, Meaux is determined to keep the Red Jacket name and continue building the business as a leader in the firearms industry.
"So far it is not negatively affecting me to keep the name, so it makes no sense to change it," Meaux added. "We're up and running, using our knowledge to create even better products."
"Even better products"? Would it be churlish of me to wonder how hard that can be?
[h/t TP]
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JSIII January 21, 2015 At 08:51
What a mess; I don't see how RJF survives without re-branding itself.
TheBear January 21, 2015 At 09:39
Jeff in MS January 21, 2015 At 09:54
A previous report indicated that Meaux had already renamed the business. Who knows what's going on on either end.
preston January 21, 2015 At 08:55
they need to just execute pieces of shit like him.
Jjmmyjonga January 21, 2015 At 08:57
If guilty, he has proven he cannot use them in a safe, law abiding manner…so off with his nutz.
Pretty much. I think castration should be the go-to for anyone convicted (perhaps with a slightly elevated burden of proof) of sex crimes with children under 13.
Geoff PR January 21, 2015 At 10:24
His fellow prisoners may be happy to take care of that 'on the house'…
Komrad January 21, 2015 At 10:13
every time rape or child molestation comes uo, out comes everyone suggesting we ignore the cruel and unusual punishment clause
Bob January 21, 2015 At 10:19
Well, yes. Cruel and unusual crimes deserve cruel and unusual punishment.
It's not like we are advocating for cutting his hands off for shoplifting; what he did is unforgivable.
int19h January 21, 2015 At 19:20
>> Cruel and unusual crimes deserve cruel and unusual punishment.
The Founders didn't agree to this more than 200 years ago, in considerably harsher times. And they cared enough about it to stick it into the Bill of Rights. Have you ever stopped and wondered why?
Mr Pierogie January 21, 2015 At 10:27
I'm a reasonable guy, I'll settle for either cruel or unusual, doesn't have to be both.
Wood January 21, 2015 At 11:26
"Civilized society" seems to be one in which the majority tolerates the most heinous crimes of the few. Some punishments should become usual for some crimes. The only problem with capital punishment is that the Capitol is corrupt, and the justice system is in shambles. We are currently operating under the Golden Rule, where those with the gold make the rules.
doesky2 January 21, 2015 At 17:03
I can tell that you were indoctrinated by the Left by your flawed thinking.
Justice, like all other things in life, cant be perfect because it's administered by imperfect man. There are many capital murder cases now days that can be ironclad proved by DNA. Justice dictates that murderers get executed.
OTOH, I don't think rapists should get the death penalty because it could lead to a portion of rapists who decide to murder their victims in hope of hiding the evidence.
Got me all figured out eh? How did your statement add to this discussion? Don't mistake justice for the "justice system."
I don't think that sticking someone behind bars for life (in a solitary cell if need be) is "tolerating". But if it lets us at least partially fix things if someone turns up to be innocent later on, I think that's one argument that totally obliterates anything in favor of death penalty (which mostly boils down to "I want my revenge now, dammit!" anyway).
Doesky, except that DNA is not nearly as infallible as people think from watching the crime shows. If it gives you a negative match, that's pretty foolproof, but false positives are not at all uncommon.
I don't think male castration is cruel and unusual.
Female castration obviously is cruel and unusual. Male castration on the other hand can be done painlessly and more importantly, it changes the behavior and desires of the person castrated without affecting their personality.
Making men unable to breed (and possibly pass along genetic tendencies to molest children) and restricting their testosterone seems like a logical response to what is, in most cases, a completely uncurable condition.
My cutoff is 13 for several reason. 13 was the age of adulthood in days past. 13 is the youngest age (I believe) the age of consent has ever been in any US state. 13 is when most people start getting their adult bodies and personalities. And more importantly, 13 is the age most kids start thinking about and being interested in sex.
A man having sex with a kid under 16 or 15 may be illegal in the United States. Ok. Whatever. But sex crimes with a child younger than 13 in my book is unforgivable without castration.
>> 13 was the age of adulthood in days past.
There was no such thing as "adulthood" in days past. Until about mid-to-late 19th century, a child was effectively treated as an adult for practically all purposes. The notion of children as special snowflakes is really a recent thing in the history of humanity.
>> 13 is the youngest age (I believe) the age of consent has ever been in any US state.
Not really. Neither UK nor the colonies/states had meaningful age of consent laws back then. The closest that comes to that is a UK law that referenced "maidens of age", which has been interpreted as 12 by some, but I don't think it was ever enforced, and certainly there were marriages registered for children much younger than that.
There are plenty of recorded marriages on the books for 12 year olds and even 9 year olds in the colonial and early US period, too.
The notion of age of consent, separate and distinct from marriageable age, was also gradually introduced over the 19th century, and pretty late at that. As of 1880, all states had such laws, but most of them put that age at 10, a few at 12, and one at 7; none had it higher than 12.
(even then, many states considered consent to be inapplicable in a legal marriage, just like back then there was no such thing as "marital rape" in law – any sexual contact between husband and wife, even when forced, was considered legitimate)
OFD January 21, 2015 At 19:53
Indeed. My Pilgrim, Puritan, Quaker and earlier English ancestors tended to treat children as miniature adults, and though, like the Romans, they were expected to honor and OBEY their parents without question, they were also handed tons of responsibility that we rarely see in these modern enlightened times.
The special snowflake cultural thing has been largely a function of the late Dr. Spock and his minions, indoctrinating the Boomer generation's parents and then the Boomers, my own generation of misfits and spoiled brats, now rolling in wealth and telling the rest of the world how to live their lives.
Ok good points all. I stand corrected.
All that said, I meant youngest age of consent /now/, which is 13 in Mississippi I think. My point is that it would be terrible to castrate for any ol' sex crime since in the United states, what is a felony in one state might literally be 100% legal a mile away over the border in different state.
Hey You April 27, 2015 At 22:21
You go get your nuts cut off and come back and tell us it was painless.
MichaelChatt June 25, 2015 At 12:09
Why do people always cry cruel and unusual? Does the very high rates of repeat sexual criminal behavior not bother you?
Besides it's not cruel and unusual if you do it to everyone who meets the required conduct, then at worst it's just cruel. is there a rule against cruel? Keeping someone in jail for life is cruel, the electric chair is cruel but as long as they are applied to everyone in a equal way it shouldn't fire up the cruel and unusual argument as the word "and" has a well defined meaning and universally applied punishment really shouldn't trigger it as an argument against said punishment.
Leaving people in prison for ever isn't working and making prisons nicer places to be doesn't seem to be much of a detergent or rehabilitation method.
int19h June 25, 2015 At 12:24
I would suggest that you read on what exactly "cruel and unusual" means in lawyer speak. There's a test associated with it. And yes, at some point cruel alone is sufficient to trigger the clause.
Lance January 21, 2015 At 09:00
Nev' been dun b'fo?
More like, def'nitly dun b'fo.
mike January 21, 2015 At 09:03
"Neva been dun befo…."
In this case, he's damn right for once.
troutbum5 January 21, 2015 At 13:58
That phrase will not apply to his backside much longer. It will definitely get "done.". Repeatedly. Pedophiles are at the bottom of the pecking order in prison. Which breaks my heart.
Freeheel January 21, 2015 At 09:16
Red Jacket's clock just hit 15 minutes….
outwardhound January 21, 2015 At 09:44
Yup…don't care if I ever hear anything about these clowns or their products ever again.
Aw. My giveadam is broken. If guilty, he's pure filth. From what I've heard, those who harm children don't do well in prison in general.
Wonder if RJF is at shot show?
FirearmConcierge on Reddit mentions they will be there…
http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/2sz2pn/just_an_fyi_red_jacket_firearms_will_be_at_shot/
Or maybe he's agitating…
Danny Griffin January 21, 2015 At 09:31
I read an interview with Stephanie the other day saying Meaux changed the name to Meaux Guns or something. It sounded like they were not going to use RJF.
Jeff January 21, 2015 At 09:38
Fuck this guy for ever having enough marketing talent to be on TV and become a "gun culture personality" – He looks like a fucking scumbag, talks like a retard, made the worst guns akin to those chintzy flea-market fantasy swords, and before he ever committed a crime (that we know of..) he was guilty of making gun owners seem like idiots.
Literally the first time I saw his ugly mug on TV I wanted to slap him into next week! Then he opened his mouth!
Fuck whoever at Discovery channel failed to properly vet this guy before giving him his own TV show, too.
Hopefully all of the inmates who are so inclined are literally fucking this guy!
Jeff, where do you get your knowledge of the quality of RJF products? Have you owned one? Have you even fired one? have you even seen one close up?
It's nice that you get upset that one person did something terrible but going nuts on everyone around them is a sad over reaction. Don't you think they are innocent victims to? They have had their worlds turned upside down and futures changed forever and they were not involved in any way.
The complaint that Discover failed to do a proper back ground check is ignorance in motion. You do realize back ground checks don't usually involve precognition? Since the offenses he got charged with had not happened yet, this very special skill would have been required.
If Discover based their decisions on appearances then they might have been able to avoid the RJF issues but what would that mean for shark week? Anything involving Danny Bonaduchie. The survivor guy would definitely be gone, he creeps me out. That traveling food guy? Ooooooooarg. /shiver.
If they follow the rule of not showing stuff based on looks of one or more of the cast members we might end up with nothing but programming with Bunnies, Platapus, flowers, non poppies, and maybe 15% of babies? OMG some babies are stupid ugly. I'd still keep the ugly ones away from Hayden but that's just wise since we have to let him keep his tools.
Ewwww. RF, why did you harsh my mellow morning coffee browsing TTAG with this POS' picture?
He is where he belongs, in prison, in hiding from every con who was abused, who wants to kill him.
What do they call child rapists – "short eyes"? Survival rates are very low, I read.
Tommy Knocker January 21, 2015 At 09:47
What may I ask has gone wrong with our prison system? "Gaining weight" ? Dude should be on bread and water and breaking rocks 18 hours a day. What the hell happened to CHAIN GANGS ?
Is that a trick question?
If he pled guilty to the rape of a child, then I guess he's guilty, unless they tortured it out of him, amirite?
Death penalty.
I'm not a huge fan of capital punishment but that's one of the handful of offenses I'd consider capital. Got somebody dead to rights and can't guarantee we can keep them securely locked up for life? Guilty of murder, rape of a child—no, make that rape, period, genuine treason, then whack 'em. Publicly. Now that I think of it, throw in the financial speculators, banksters, lawyers, and politicians who tanked our economy and caused untold suffering and even death for countless families in this country.
I watched a couple of these shows back in the day and was not impressed anyway. There are pretty decent episodes on the Sportsman Channel concerning firearms, hunting and self-defense but more could be done.
I don't think he is still part of RJF. If we wants to be considered a legitimate quality gun maker he has to run away from RJF in my opinion.
http://www.examiner.com/article/joe-meaux-of-sons-of-guns-starts-new-companies-meaux-guns-and-aklys-defense
"Joe Meaux of "Sons of Guns" is moving on since the show has ended. On Friday, Nola shared that he has started two new businesses called Meaux Guns and Aklys Defense. Joe is the former owner of Red Jacket Firearms and has moved on to these new businesses."
KCK January 21, 2015 At 10:15
"Meaux Betta' Guns"
Meaux is pronounced mow
With good Luisian accent
Does it sound like "moe", as in I just mowed the lawn? Or does it sound like "wow", as in wow that orange jumpsuit looks ugly on him!
Paul G January 21, 2015 At 12:42
Moe, as in beau or beaux are pronounced bow like the weapon, not the front of a boat.
Flynn January 21, 2015 At 10:16
If Islam and Sharia Law are eventually implemented here in the US then Will Hayden might be pardoned. He may even be seen as a hero to this religion that takes on 8-12 year old brides.
Just following Mo and his 6-YO bride.
If Sharia law was implemented in US, he'd be put to death for committing adultery while married.
Sadly my opinion of daughter and son-in-law is not much higher than Daddy the rapist. Yep torture for pops…
Buffalo Bob January 21, 2015 At 13:33
All we know is what is what we read and see on tv. IF he is truly guilty he should be executed. If he was somehow framed or strong armed and is actually innocent it would never matter. his life is over anyway, credibility gone forever. Cool show while it lasted, but WTF, dirk diggler is a racist, and this guy is a sick bastard.
John Hope January 21, 2015 At 14:55
Well one good thing that comes out of this…….We dont have to watch his ignorant daughter on TV anymore. She just looked odd and awkward on camera. She has the charisma of a rock. She made it very painful to watch that show.
And……i totally take that comment back…..
Brian June 29, 2015 At 10:26
"The media can make an innocent man look guilty, and a guilty man look innocent" -Malcolm X
If he is truly guilty of these crimes then take him out and drop one in his head and be done with it because that's all the attention piece of shit child molesters are worth.
But, it's just odd none of this comes out until the height of his popularity, and going into partnership with his Daughter, Son In Law, and Joe Meaux. Stephanie Hayden Ford told doctor Phil her dad, Hayden, touched her when she was 12-13 years old, but yet she worked for him all those years and went into a partnership with him, I don't know timing is weird, the arresting department didnsaybthey had proof enough for an arrest but never released what that proof was. If he is innocent, that's a fucked up horrible thing to do and even if he is innocent he never will live life that way, that kind of thing is unrecoverable. If he is guilty, and there might be proof I am made public I am unaware of, then hang him from the yard arm!
joey February 13, 2017 At 23:22
OK, as far as the age at which a "child" is considered an adult – it had to do with the girl getting her period, supposedly the fact that she was able to now bear a child meant she was ready to……..But they didn't know a whole lot about the emotional/mental impact on the child.
As for all the gung-ho, "castrate and kill 'em" idiots, has not over 100 men being released from death row after it was discovered they were innocent taught you meatheads anything? There's a reason morons like you don't get to make the rules.
Richard Cutie June 23, 2017 At 12:42
Before this tragedy of raping this child came to light and the true nature of this animal will hayden became clear I proudly displayed my RJF Ar15 and wore one of his shirts and hat. Well I traded the rifle for a baretta m9 and lost more than half my money. I threw the shirt and hat away. I was a disapointed fan of the show and to say that I'll never have anything to do with the name RED JACKET FIREARMS again. I have a lot of respect for Joe and am pulling for him to do well. He needs to disassociate himself with that name and I'll be proud to give him business in future. I will not buy anything with RJF name. Best Regards


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More Than Cars: The Henry Ford Museum
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A 1956 Chevrolet poses with some vintage fast-food signs
The building was dedicated in 1929 as a private education instit
One of the museum's main hallways
Known as a high-wheeler for the large wheels that got it through
Over the course of 61 days, this 1903 Packard was the second car
A Model T is all about the sum of its parts
This 1915 Brewster limousine cost $7,600, or about 12 years of a
This enormous circa-1916 steam tractor was used to pull large fa
The 1948 Tucker never went into production, but the museum owns
A 1949 Mercury customized by the late George Barris
A 1952 Federal truck pulls a 1946 Fruehauf trailer
An Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on this bus, which ultima
The 1957 Cornell-Liberty Safety Car concept was the result of fi
A 1957 DeSoto Fireflite, a Chrysler brand that was made from 192
The museum has several 1960s-era Mold-A-Rama machines, where you
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The 1980 Comuta-Car and its CitiCar predecessor sold about 4,000
Child seats have certainly changed over the years
Henry Ford may have said, "History is more or less bunk," but it's doubtful he really meant it. After he became a successful automaker, he spent much of his time collecting historical treasures. These ultimately resulted in a group of museums in Dearborn, Michigan now known as The Henry Ford.
Despite the name, the museum isn't owned or operated by the Ford Motor Company (although one of the attractions, the Rouge Factory Tour, is operated in conjunction with it). And it isn't just about cars. Instead, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, which I toured on this visit, also includes agriculture, home life, flight, railways and civil rights.
Ford was born in 1863 and died in 1947. After a couple of false starts, he founded his Ford Motor Company in 1903. The famous Model T, introduced in 1908, made him wealthy. In 1914, according to the museum, he wanted to look up a poem from his school days. His search for that book sparked an interest in collecting items from the past.
He fondly recalled his rural childhood, which led him to buy items he remembered but which weren't considered collectible at the time. The museum still contains many of these everyday pieces, such as kitchen stoves, coffee pots, furniture, and farm equipment. He told a newspaper that his "bunk" comment had been taken out of context: while schools taught about monarchies and world leaders, Ford was more interested in the historical importance of ordinary people.
Over the years even he bought and moved many important structures, including the Wright Brothers' shop, his friend Thomas Edison's laboratory, and his own first home and school to Greenfield Village, the largest of the museum complex's attractions.
A 1957 DeSoto Fireflite, a Chrysler brand that was made from 1928 to 1960
Evolution of the Ford F-Series
I went to Germany for the driving, and got a history lesson instead
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The Museum of American Innovation building was dedicated in 1929 as a private education centre, and then opened to the public in 1933. It covers an enormous range of items, even within the automobile section. A 1956 Chevrolet sits below a vintage McDonald's neon sign, and you can eat in the restored 1940s diner behind it – although you'll pay modern prices for your sandwich and pie, rather than the 45 cents advertised on the vintage signboards. Nearby, a 1957 DeSoto is parked outside of a 1960s Holiday Inn room, authentic down to the chenille bedspreads and painted cinderblock walls. I spent many a night in these as a child on my family's frequent car trips, and it certainly brought back some memories.
In addition to what you might expect in any auto museum – vehicles like a bullet-nosed Studebaker, big-finned Cadillac and, of course, a Model T – there are some standouts. There's a Chrysler Turbine, one of the handful left when the company crushed most of the experimental models, and an EV-1, the electric General Motors model that suffered the same fate. There's a Mercury customized by the late George Barris, and one of the six Bugatti Royales that made headlines in 1987 when one sold for $9.7 million.
The 1948 Tucker never went into production, but the museum owns one of the 51 prototypes made
The main hallway has a number of presidential limousines, but the most photographed is a 1961 Lincoln. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in this car in November 1963. One might think that would be enough to pull it out of service, but the White House had the car rebuilt with a steel roof and put back in service, where it was used by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
The 1961 Lincoln in which John F. Kennedy was killed was later rebuilt with a roof and put back into presidential service
And it's not the only reminder of how tough the nation's highest office can be. The museum also owns the rocking chair in which Abraham Lincoln was shot. It's tied in to an extensive display on the Civil War, slavery, and civil rights, which culminates in a 1948 city bus. It would be otherwise unremarkable except for a day in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman riding home in Montgomery, Alabama on the segregated service, refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested. Martin Luther King then led a year-long boycott against the bus company, which relied on the large number of blacks who used transit. This led to desegregation on the buses, and which in turn sparked the larger civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on this bus, which ultimately led to desegregation on the bus line
After it was decommissioned, the bus sat for 30 years in a field and was used as a storage shed. In 2001 it was identified as the original bus, and The Henry Ford outbid the Smithsonian for it, paying US$427,919 and then spending another $300,000 to restore it. The interior had been stripped and all but the driver's seat came from other buses, but you can sit in the place that Parks refused to leave.
Henry Ford's belief that history was made by ordinary people is still much of the museum's theme, and that aspect of it makes it a must-see. And, by the way, the cars are great, too.
The Henry Ford is located at 20900 Oakwood Blvd. in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar, Shake Keane, Idrees Sulieman, trumpet; Eric Van Lier, Nat Peck, Ake Persson, trombone; Derek Humble, alto sax; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Karl Drewo, Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, tenor sax; Sahib Shihab, baritone sax; Francy Boland, piano, arranger; Jimmy Woode, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums; Fats Sadi, bongos.
Jean-Luc Ponty, violin; Wolfgang Dauner, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Daniel Humair, drums.
* Prestige PR 7547; Original Jazz Classics OJC-223, OJCCD-223-2 Pat Martino - Strings!
George Braith, sax; John Hicks, piano; Herbert Lewis, bass; Roy Haynes, drums.
Hampton Hawes, piano; Eberhard Weber, bass; Klaus Weiss, drums #2,4,6,7.
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* Prestige PR 7559; Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1899-2 Charles McPherson - From This Moment On!
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* Prestige PR 7570 Richard "Groove" Holmes - The Groover!
* Prestige PR 7574 Byrdie Green - Sister Byrdie!
* Prestige PR 7573 Jaki Byard With Strings!
* Prestige PR 7572 Pucho And The Latin Soul Brothers - Heat!
= Prestige PR 7620 The Great Oscar Peterson On Prestige!
= Prestige PR 7595 Oscar Peterson - Soul-O!
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* Prestige PR 7600; Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1082-2 The Barry Harris Sextet - Bull's Eye!
* Prestige PR 7588 Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Nasty!
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* Prestige PR 7635 Sonny Stitt - Soul Electricity!
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* Prestige PR 7613 Don Patterson - Funk You!
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Willis Jackson, tenor sax, gatorhorn; Jackie Ivory, organ; Bill Jennings, guitar; Jerry Potter, drums; Richie "Pablo" Landrum, congas.
Houston Person, tenor sax; Billy Gardner, organ; Joe Jones, guitar; Frankie Jones, drums.
* Prestige PR 7621 Houston Person - Soul Dance!
* Prestige PR 7622 This Is Billy Butler!
Blue Mitchell, trumpet; George Coleman, tenor sax; Harold Mabern, piano, electric piano; Bill Lee, bass; Hugh Walker, drums.


You will be responsible for delivering high quality support to nine individuals in their own homes, all living within one area in a core and cluster model. You will have a positive, person-centred approach, an understanding of the day-to-day challenges faced by people with severe and enduring mental illness and be passionate about helping people to have fulfilling lives. You will be required to support people in their own homes, to develop and maintain independent living skills and to take part in activities in the community.
This service may require you to be trained in CALM - Crisis, Aggression,Limitation and Management and physical intervention techniques, if you have not had any training this will be provided to you.


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Miriam Paterna 22 October 2021 Right To Be Forgotten No Comments
Following the Costeja judgement on May 13, 2014, the former Article 29 Working Group was formed to establish new guidelines regarding privacy on the web and, specifically, the right of a user to request the removal of personal information from the web and search engines. Referred to as the right to be forgotten, this is nowadays a fundamental right that, however, still is not always easy to determine and, despite the alignment of the rules throughout Europe, the final decision of whether or not a request is valid is assigned to the local guarantor authorities. However, if someone wants to know how to exercise the right to be forgotten on European search engines, he/she has to follow the Guidelines 5/2019 on the criteria of the Right to be Forgotten in the search engines cases under the GDPR
GDPR Guidelines on the right to be forgotten on search engines
According to these guidelines, a request for de-indexing is based on the right to rectification/deletion and the right to object according to the general principles established by art. 17 of the GDPR. According to this article, we can list a number of criteria of the right to be forgotten established by the GDPR. The first reason why a user can invoke the right to be forgotten concerns the relevance of the data: in fact (according to art.17, paragraph 1, letter a) if personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was initially collected or otherwise processed, the data subject may request a search engine provider to remove content linked to his or her name from the list of search results. In addition to that (according to the article 17 of the GDPR, paragraph 1, letter b), the data subject may obtain the erasure of personal data concerning him or her when he or she withdraws consent to the processing, although in this case it is the web publisher and not the search engine operator that indexes the data. According to letter c of the same paragraph, moreover, the data subject may also proceed in case of objection to the processing of his data and where there is no overriding legitimate reason to proceed with the processing by the controller. Examples of such cases are situations in which the personal information in question is not relevant to the professional life of the data subject but affects his or her private life, or in which it constitutes incitement to hatred, slander, defamation or similar crimes of opinion against the data subject, when the data is inaccurate or when it refers to crimes of relatively minor gravity committed long ago and therefore no longer of interest to the public, but constitutes a single source of prejudice to the data subject. Finally, a user can request the de-indexing of content on three other grounds: when personal data have been unlawfully processed (Article 17(1)(d)), when the said personal information has already been deleted from the source to comply with a legal obligation and therefore must also be de-indexed from the search engine (Article 17(1)(e)), or when personal data have been collected in connection with the offering of information society services to children (Article 17(1)(f)).
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I have been sitting here for quite some time now trying to think of interesting things to say about Lemmy, and I have been met with a surprising amount of difficulty. Lemmy is an old-fashioned sparkling lemonade beverage that has, according to the bottle, been around since 1939. And...well...that's about it. There's really not much to say about it, other than the fact that it has one of the most horrifying product mascots that I've ever seen on a beverage label. I mean, maybe this sort of thing was effective back in the 1940's, and I understand the whole "retro" appeal, but the dated depiction of Lemmy's ravenous, sentient lemon is really just sort of creepy.
As far as the taste goes, Lemmy really isn't bad. But it really isn't good, either. The taste is easy and light, and the level of sweetness is actually surprisingly mild for an "old fashioned" soda. But despite seeming to have many of the qualities that normally make a soft drink appealing, there is just something about Lemmy that falls flat. In fact, it is almost completely forgettable. There is nothing in particular that makes Lemmy stand out, and the flavor is so light that it seems almost a little bit unambitious. The lemon flavor is there, but only in pure taste; there are no other elements of natural lemon juice (sourness, acidity, tart sweetness, etc.) that I have come to enjoy in these sorts of beverages. Perhaps my lack of interest in Lemmy is due in part to the fact that I have been drinking so many strong, flavorful citrus drinks as of late, but I think that the bigger issue here is really that Lemmy is just too mild for my tastes.
Like I've already said, there is nothing wrong with Lemmy. It's not bad, and the very light flavor may appeal to those who want the taste of lemon without some of the bolder qualities. But there's no real reason to buy it over anything else. To me, the flavor was not strong enough to justify the sugar and calories. I would rather wait for something more flavorful and just drink water in the meantime. But despite all of this, I would still say that it's definitely worth a try. You may like it a lot better than I did.
Just...try not to stare at the label for too long. It will consume you.
I haven't tasted Lemmy since 1960. I liked it but I couldn't only get a bottle while visiting my great uncle's farm as a kid. It was sold at the Shortville (WI) General Store about 10 miles southeast of Neillsville. The place had a tin sign on the outside wall with the mascot saying "Lemme have a Lemmy." The place also sold Sundrop Cola (clear as 7Up) and Kickapoo Joy Juice (super sweet citrus). Haven't seen any of them since 1960.


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Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser selected as Senior Fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber & Homeland Security
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September 29, 2017 By // by Bryan Strawser
Minnesota CEO & Crisis Management Expert to help guide public policy on national security & cybersecurity issues.
Bryghtpath LLC, a global strategic advisory firm based in Shoreview, Minnesota and specializing in global risk, crisis management, business continuity, and crisis communications, is pleased to announce that Bryan Strawser, Principal & CEO, has been selected as a Senior Fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber & Homeland Security.
"Being selected as a Senior Fellow is an incredible honor, " said Bryan Strawser, Principal & CEO. "I look forward to contributing to the critically important conversation about the national security of the United States and the cybersecurity risks faced by the public and private sectors in our country."
As a non-resident Senior Fellow, Mr. Strawser will work with a distinguished group of policy experts and practitioners in the areas of cybersecurity, counterterrorism, and homeland security. Senior Fellows are drawn from federal, state, and local government, the private sector, academia, and the non-profit sector. They contribute to the work of the Center by participating as contributors and subject matter experts in policy task forces and projects; speaking at conferences and other events; writing and publishing policy reports, opinion pieces, and blog posts; and engaging in outreach with the news media and other stakeholders.
Mr. Strawser's intended focus as a Senior Fellow is around public / private sector partnership and collaboration on major disasters and cybersecurity incidents.
The new cohort of senior fellows was selected earlier this month following an open, competitive process. Mr. Strawser will serve a two-year term starting on October 1st, 2017.
The GW Center for Cyber & Homeland Security is a nonpartisan "think and do" tank whose mission is to carry out policy-relevant research & analysis on homeland security, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity issues.
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Much of what we know about the Moon came from robotic orbiters and landers during the 1960s and 1970s. Some scientists thought that a spacecraft landing on the Moon would sink into its dusty surface. This was shown to be wrong by American and Russian landers. They cleared the way for humans to visit the Moon.
Twelve men walked on the near side of the Moon between 1969 and 1972. They left scientific experiments on the surface. They also came back with nearly 400 kg of rocks and soil. On the later missions, the astronauts drove around the Moon in a battery-powered rover.
In recent years, many countries have decided to go back to the Moon. Orbiting spacecraft have explored the entire surface in great detail. One major discovery was the presence of water ice at the bottom of craters near the lunar poles. Shaded from the Sun's rays, the ice may have been there for millions of years. This could be used by future explorers to make oxygen and to drink.
Europe's first lunar spacecraft was SMART-1, which orbited the Moon between November 2004 and September 2006. SMART-1 took detailed images of the surface and studied what the rocks are made of. The mission ended with a deliberate crash into the lunar surface.


Bennington, Cynthia C, Ned Fetcher, M. C Vavrek, Gaius R Shaver, K. J Cummings, and James B McGraw. "Home Site Advantage In Two Long-Lived Arctic Plant Species: Results From Two 30-Year Reciprocal Transplant Studies". Journal Of Ecology 100, no. 4. Journal Of Ecology (2012): 841-851. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01984.x.
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I have just published my second book, Ask Dr. Eldritch Volume #2 Why Does My Monster Hate Me? Can I get a "Yay!"?
If you said "Yay!", thanks for participating in my Official Book Launch Celebration! Okay, perhaps I will have a more traditional book launch party, eventually. Maybe I'll exploit the Willamette Writers' Holiday Book Sale again, since it's happening in just a few months. We'll see.
For those who want their Personally Signed Copy with Bonus Gifts, I will gather preorders for the First-Print-Run Sale. Look for information soon here, or in the Newsletter or with the webcomic.
Now I'm going to wash dishes.